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Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel

Jahr

1858

Ort

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Nachweis

in: Fort Wayne Weekly Republican 1:7 (16. Juni 1858), S. 3.

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen.

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Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.156
Dateiname: 1858-Baron_Humboldt_on-10-neu

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Baron Humboldt on American Slavery.

A PRIVATE LETTER TO MR. JULIUS FROEBEL.

Accept, my dear Froebel, if only a fewlines, my most cordial thanks for your kindletter and for the gift of an able work onyour personal exporiences in America, inwhich you have submited all classes ofsociety to such a sagacious comparison. Youare here warmly cherished in the memoryof all who are acquainted with your disting-uished scientific attainments, the noblenessof your character, and the peculiar featuresof your mind. I have boasted of your en-during friendship with me in the new volumeof Kosmos, p. 541. I closed this volumejust as I received the last part of yourtravels and researches, which had alreadyoften been directed to me by friends, andaspecially by Varnhagen von Ense. I trustI shall not lose your favor on account ofmy differing from you in regard to the con-nexion between the North Mexican high-lands and the Rocky Mountains. Ourcontroversy, as you will find when youread attentively, (p. 431—440,) is almostentirely one of words. I make a distinctionbutween a broad and continuous elevation,and the disconnceted chain rising above it,often steeply and like battlements. Theword mountain is very indefinite. In spiteof my heretical disposition, however, yourninth chapter, (p.501—518,) gives me a greatdeal of instruction. You have explainedmany points which were only hinted at inthe “Remarks.” (Contribution to Phys.Geog., Smithson. Inst.) But there are other things which comenearer my heart than those elevations. Yournext volume on the political future of Amer-ica, would I, almost the original Adam,gladly live to see. Continue to brand theshameful devotion to slavery, the treacher-ous importation of negroes, under the pretenceof their becoming free—a means to stimulatethe hunting of negroes in the interior ofAfrica. What atrocities have been witness-ed by one who has had the misfortune tolive from 1789 to 1858! My book againstslavery (Political Essay on the Island ofCuba) is not prohibited in Madrid, but can-not be purchased in the United States, whichyou call “the republic of distinguishedpeople,” except with the omission of every-thing that relates to the sufferings of ourcolored fellow-men, who according to mypolitical views, are entitled to the enjoymentof the same freedom with ourselves. Addto this, the anahema on other races of men,forgetting that the most ancient cultivationof humanity, before that of the white Hel-lenic race, in Assyria, in Babylon, in thevalley of the Nile, in Iran, in China, wasthe work of colored men, though not woollyhaired. I still work hard, mostly in the night,herause I am unmercifully tormented witha constantly increasing correspondence, forthe most part, of not the slightest interest.I live joyless in my 89th year, because ofthe much for which I have ardently strivenfrom my earliest youth, so little has beenaccomplished. With expressions of the friend-ship of many years, which political eventshave never troubled,

I am ever your illegible,Al. Humboldt.

Berlin, January 11, 1858.

New York Tribune.

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